From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 3:51:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cyberland.fi (mail.cyberland.fi [62.142.63.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7228937B40D for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:50:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desti@sigtrap.com) Received: (qmail 53604 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 10:51:45 -0000 Received: from ip-62-142-63-76.cyberland.fi (HELO sigtrap.com) (62.142.63.76) by mail.cyberland.fi with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 10:51:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3B77B052.8090003@sigtrap.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:47:46 +0300 From: Edvard Fagerholm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010810 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Old PC + Big IDE HD = Booting? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We have a old P133 sitting in our lab and I tried to install FreeBSD on it. Its old HD was broken, so I had to fire it up with a 40GB Quantum Fireball disk. Now the only way to boot that computer was to disable that drive in the BIOS, and then continue normally with the FreeBSD installation as it doesn't care what the BIOS has to say about the drives connected to the system. Anyways installation was succesfull and I'm able to boot that drive from a newer computer. I got that HD to the boot loader too from the old PC by manually configuring it to look like a 8GB drive. However when I see the boot prompt and try pressing F1 the computer beeps once and then completely freezes. Is there any way to get that thing up and running with a bigger disk than 8GB? I tried booting it with grub too, but I'm not familiar with it, anyways it crashed too after typing 'kernel /boot/loader' which is why a think it's crashing in the loader not in grub or easyboot. So is there any bootloader available that could scan the disks data for itself and pass them to the loader? Any suggestions on getting it to boot are welcome. Thanks Edvard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message